The hope of today is one who remembers past events, emphasizes Vējonis

Today's hope is one that remembers the events of the past by participating in the commemoration of the victims of the Jewish genocide on Gogoļa Street, said President Raimonds Vējonis.

As reported to the Chancellery of the President, the President noted that no figure could express what the Latvian state and society lost in relation to the destruction of most of the community Jewish during the Second World War. The 20th century left several deep scars in the history of Latvia. One of them is the 4th of July, when the first victims died in the burned synagogue of 1941, marking the road of the mbadacre in the forests of Biķernieki and Rumbula, said Vējonis: " Today, Latvia is in front of the victims of the Holocaust. to keep in mind when creating our common future, "stressed Vejonis." In society and in public space, the soil suffers from xenophobia, hatred and hatred. intolerance to everything else. "The hope of today, it is those who remember the events of the past", recognizes the daily. President of Latvia

July 4 is the day of commemoration of the victims of the genocide of the Jewish people, because on this day of 1941 almost all synagogues of Riga were burned, mainly with people, following the Nazi order. The memorial was created in the early 1990s – the walls of the symbolic synagogue with fragments of the original scenery were discovered in excavations

During the Nazi occupation in 1941-1945, more than 70,000 local Jews were murdered in Latvia and about 20,000 Jews deported from other European countries.